It can have profound implications on the quality of their lives now and into the future.
“Sports will come to an end one day.
Needing movement, physical strength, & health will not.
The above will be needed until the end.
Make sure you’re investing in your kids physical/wellness literacy.
It’s quite literally the difference between (quality of) life & death.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
On the surface, I am a Strength Coach.
I am a guy who helps athletes increase their athletic value by helping them to get stronger, run faster, jump higher, and move better.
The athletes who do the above can then take their newly optimized general athletic qualities they’ve earned and apply them to the specific environments of their sport(s).
That’s how it works. That’s the gig. And I love it, too. I really do.
But is my entire life’s purpose focused on helping athletes increase their squat max by 50 pounds or shaving 2 tenths off their 40?
No chance, in all honesty helping athletes do the above is really, really easy provided they stay committed to the process that is training and by the all the way in.
I can assure you that while I do know how to improve and enjoy the training analytics side, I am playing a much deeper, more serious game than what is to be seen on the surface.
This stuff is literally life and death.
And when you read that on the surface, you’re likely thinking, “This guy is a wacko.. his job is nothing more than to help athletes be better at their sports.”
And I may agree with you if we weren’t living in a country with an obesity epidemic, where people are suffering with low quality lives and dying pre mature deaths because of a lack of physical/nutritional literacy.
While that likely got your attention and I don’t aim to be brash, what better time than to teach our kids to positively associate with movement, strength, and general wellness in their most impressionable pre-teen and teenage years?
We as Strength Coaches can dig into the weeds and get into the nitty gritty of the details related to performance development, but what about the actual athletes?
They’ll never care about this stuff on the same level that we do.
But what if they take the habits they built up under the direction of a physical culture leader in their early years and take the lessons with them for the remainder of their days?
Statistically speaking they’ll lead higher quality, more fulfilling, effective lives, watching their grand children grow up.
It’s a big deal.
